Wednesday, April 28, 2010

OK - description of computers here is very old - this is a 1950s story. And for some additional fun, we're dealing with an analog computer here rather than digital one, because digital ones are "nearly as big as yachts, and cost more".

Story summary.

Norman Venner, a women-shy workaholic, has built this amazing new machine he thinks can get the company some government contracts. A machine that is very good at calculating curves. Only, during testing, the machine has began occasionally making romantic passes at him, using, you know, "curves" of the right kind...

Notes.

This story packs far too much information on a single punched card. I used to think a punched card could hold just 80 7-bit numbers? Can someone familiar with them enlighten? Thank you.